A Jefferson County teacher who says she was fired for expressing breast milk at work won’t ask for her job back, but a settlement in her claim against Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen sets precedent for other employers of working moms, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday.

“This case is really just one of so many examples of employers simply being ignorant to what they’re required to do to accommodate working mothers,” said ACLU of Colorado Cooperating Attorney, Mari Newman.

Heather Burgbacher said her contract with the K-8 charter school was not renewed in Feb. 18, 2011, after she asked that her teaching schedule be changed to accommodate breast-milk pumping for her second child, who was 6-months old at the time.

She filed a notice of intent to sue under the Colorado Nursing Mothers Act, a 2008 law protecting a woman’s right to continue breastfeeding after returning to work.

The settlement announced Monday includes undisclosed monetary compensation and the commitment from the school to make policy changes related to the needs of nursing employees. There will now be a designated area for private breast pumping, and a school official has been designated to help employees coordinate their class schedules around the times they need to pump.

The school did not return calls for comment.

“The settlement really serves as a model for employers in Colorado and throughout the nation,” Newman said. “It really is possible to accommodate working mothers in a meaningful way without giving up anything.”

Burgbacher, who now works developing curriculum for online courses, said that the lawsuit was driven by her values as a working mother as well as her desire to change policies that ignored existing legislation protecting nursing mothers from discrimination in the workplace.

“I am so satisfied with the steps that have been taken towards bringing awareness to accommodations for nursing mothers,” Burgbacher said, with her now 2-year-old daughter nestled in her lap. “I felt this was important because there are so many women who would be afraid to do it — or they don’t know that they can do it, or don’t know that there are laws in place to protect them.”

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.